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White Paper Birch

July 18, 2023

White Paper Birch

By Amba Gale

(Three Haiku)

White birch sheds its bark
in tandem with the trunk’s growth,
making way for new.

 

The slow, white bark
peels off the Birch tree’s trunk,
ready for its new skin.

 

White bark like paper
peeling its way to new air.
The trunk grows to new life.

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